Puerta La Libertad raid

The Puerta La Libertad raid occurred in 1993 when the Salvadoran Army and DEA launched a raid on Sinaloa Cartel leader El Chapo's operation in Puerta La Libertad, San Salvador, El Salvador. The DEA was notified of El Chapo's plan to move a shipment of five tons of cocaine from El Salvador to Cuba and then to Miami, Florida by General Eugenio Blanco, who tracked El Chapo as he crossed into El Salvador from Mexico through Guatemala. The DEA and military ambushed El Chapo as he and his men discussed their discovery of the DEA threat at the pier, and many of El Chapo's men were killed or captured. He then found that the Hostal La Libertad had been secured by the army, and he was forced to flee. He was arrested in Guatemala after a local general refused his bribes, and he was extradited to Mexico, where he was imprisoned at the Altiplano prison. General Blanco was fired from his post shortly before a press conference about Chapo's capture was to be held, as he was discovered to have been a rapist; Conrado Higuera Sol replaced him as presidential advisor, and he became El Chapo's new contact in the government.